Common Core, Uncommon Foe

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Posted: January 16, 2014

By George Will

Washington Post Writers Group, 2014

Opposition to the Common Core is surging because
Washington, hoping to mollify opponents, is saying, in effect: “If you like your local control of education, you can keep it. Period.” To which a burgeoning movement is responding: “No. Period.”
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Viewed from Washington, which often is the last to learn about important developments, opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative still seems as small as the biblical…